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dropbox.device getting installed on my USB
How can I stop dropbox from creating a dropbox.device on USBs when I plug them into my PC? Dropbox is also creating a popup each time to plug in a USB. It didn't do this before, and I hadn't recently...
The dropbox.device file is being used by more features than the Camera Uploads now, so the solution in this (VERY OLD) thread really doesn't apply anymore. The file is used to remember your preferences for drives you insert. You may get a notification to upload photos or backup a drive when you insert a new drive, and there's often an option to remember your choice. If Dropbox didn't place the file on the drive then it wouldn't know that it's the same drive the next time it's plugged in.
There's an option in Preferences to hide all notifications when external drives are plugged in. Try enabling that, along with disabling Camera Uploads, and see if it stops the file from being added to devices.
It's a big problem!
File .dropbox.device is created without user's agree on all USB and cloud drives.
How to stop and disable it?
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIThe dropbox.device file is being used by more features than the Camera Uploads now, so the solution in this (VERY OLD) thread really doesn't apply anymore. The file is used to remember your preferences for drives you insert. You may get a notification to upload photos or backup a drive when you insert a new drive, and there's often an option to remember your choice. If Dropbox didn't place the file on the drive then it wouldn't know that it's the same drive the next time it's plugged in.
There's an option in Preferences to hide all notifications when external drives are plugged in. Try enabling that, along with disabling Camera Uploads, and see if it stops the file from being added to devices.
Dropbox now hasn't settings to disable Camera uploads.
For remember drives and preferences devices has VolumeID and not need write any file on his. If all programs will be write own files on devies for remember any options - really it will be good?
Dropbox can use own local database of devices and preferences.
- Rich
Gigabyte wrote:
Dropbox now hasn't settings to disable Camera uploads.
It never has, at least on Windows. You disable it by changing the autoplay settings so Dropbox isn't listed for the device.
Rich : Dropbox say that you have to disable it - but you can't. And no, my autoplay settings are "show in explorer", so Dropbox should not be involved. But they still create that file (of course, Dropbox is running, so they don't need to get involved by autoplay). So official Dropbox help is really bad.
Rich wrote:There's an option in Preferences to hide all notifications when external drives are plugged in. Try enabling that, along with disabling Camera Uploads, and see if it stops the file from being added to devices.
No it's not help for me. File dropbox.device created again and again 😞
My guess is that Dropbox remembered something at the time it was selected in the autorun settings. Now the autorun settings are set to "do nothing", but Dropbox continues to use that memorized disc information. Something needs to be cleaned up, but what?
The annoying file keeps popping up.
